After Song Jiaoren was assassinated, when Shanghai organized a special court to try the Song Jiaoren assassination case, they encountered considerable difficulties!
Firstly, the murderer Samurai Ying had died violently for no reason; secondly, the key criminal Hong Shuzu had fled to the German Concession in Qingdao and could not be captured; thirdly, Zhao Bingjun, the state minister involved in the case, claimed to be ill and hid in the hospital. In response to Shanghai's request for him to appear in court,
Zhao Bingjun only took out the doctor's diagnosis report. Although he sent several telegrams to defend himself, he could not get the court. Sun Yat-sen was in Japan. After learning the news, he immediately returned to China on March 25 and then went to Shanghai.
A meeting was held at Huang Xing's residence to discuss the next step.
Sun Yat-sen was extremely sad and indignant after learning about the course of the case. He strongly advocated raising troops to attack Yuan at the meeting, and almost forgot about the happy talk he had with Yuan Shikai last year. However, the senior Kuomintang cadres who participated in the meeting
, most of them did not agree with Sun Yat-sen's opinion of using force. Especially the No. 2 leader Huang Xing, he believed that the current trial of the case was beneficial to the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang side, and legal settlement should be considered first, and war should not be discussed lightly until the last step.
After hearing this, Sun Yat-sen was extremely angry. In his heart, he had determined that Yuan Shikai was hopeless and would inevitably restore the dictatorship. Instead of waiting for him to show his fox tail, it would be better to take action now. Sun Yat-sen claimed that as long as he gives me two divisions of troops now, I will
He personally led the charge to question Yuan Shikai.
But the problem is that at that time, the Kuomintang did not even have two divisions of troops. But having said that, even if it had two divisions, as Huang Xing said, it might not be able to defeat Yuan Shikai's well-trained Beiyang Army.
Sun Yat-sen had never fought against them, but Huang Xing knew how powerful they were.
In fact, the Song case had not been fully clarified at that time. Even if the Kuomintang people had a thousand reasons to doubt Yuan Shikai, it was not appropriate to directly identify Yuan Shikai as the culprit behind the scenes. Raising troops to attack Yuan would be suspected of "local resistance to the [central] government."
Therefore, when Sun Yat-sen's telegram requesting the use of force against Yuan Shikai was sent out, the three powerful governors of the Kuomintang, Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui, and Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong, all immediately responded by saying that they had no strength to be independent.
Sun Yat-sen had another option at that time, which was to go to Japan to seek aid, but he probably forgot that before the North-South talks, he also visited various countries in Europe, the United States, and Japan, but in the end he did not get a penny.
, returned empty-handed. Although those great powers wore the hat of civilization, they were all profit-seeking snobs. When Yuan Shikai had not become president, they were unwilling to bet on Sun Yat-sen. Now that Yuan Shikai has become president, how could they
Are you going to support Sun Yat-sen again?
After borrowing a lot of money to deal with the aftermath, Yuan Shikai, who had money, simply lost his face. Not only did he ignore the protests of the Kuomintang members, but he aggressively rebuked Sun Yat-sen. Huang Xing and other Kuomintang members said: "I am now considered a
I have seen it through. People like Sun Wen are also making trouble on the left and on the right. Apart from making trouble, they have no other ability. Listen to what Sun Wen said, "I have no other choice but to resign today." What else did he say?
'I must oppose the monarch's determination and oppose the public one without hesitation'. Damn it, Sun Wen still wants to make up his mind to do it with me! You can tell the Kuomintang people that I, Yuan Shikai, cannot allow others to make trouble.
If Sun Wen dares to use guns or artillery, or organizes a separate government, I will send troops to conquer, and there will be no room for appeasement and support."
Liang Shiyi, Secretary-General of the Presidential Office, was a little worried: "President, isn't this too direct?"
Yuan Shikai replied angrily: "Just say it was me who said it, and I am responsible for what I said!"
In addition, in order to relieve the pressure from the Southern Kuomintang Party to demand that the cabinet [Prime Minister] Zhao Bingjun appear in court, Yuan Shikai sent people to create the so-called "Bloodlight Group Assassination Case" in Zhili as a counterattack. At that time, there was a self-proclaimed "Female Assassination Group"
A woman named "Chief" surrendered to the Beijing District Procuratorate, claiming that she came to Beijing on the orders of "Bloodlight Regiment Leader" Huang Xing to carry out assassinations. The Beijing Military and Political Law Enforcement Office arrested her again the next day in the name of a "Bloodlight Regiment member"
Since then, major newspapers have been hyping up the "Blood Light Group" as scary as the "Blood Drops" of the former Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty. As a result, the Beijing District Procuratorate took advantage of the situation to frame it, and in turn issued a subpoena demanding Huang
Xing came to the case to confront him, which made the Song case even more complicated and dramatic. Not only that, Yuan Shikai later ordered the removal of Huang Xing's army general's rank and offered a reward for Huang Xing's capture. Chen Qimei and other "rebels"
The “corruption party”.
When things got to this point, the two sides had no choice but to fight each other!
On June 9, Yuan Shikai took the initiative and ordered Li Liejun to be removed from the post of governor of Jiangxi and appointed Li Yuanhong as concurrent governor of Jiangxi. On the 14th, he dismissed Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong, and on the 30th, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui, was also dismissed. So.
First, the three governors who were members of the Kuomintang and the Democratic Party were all dismissed by Yuan Shikai on the grounds of being "incompetent" and "not living up to the expectations of the public." Of course, the root cause was "disobedience to the [Central] Central Committee"!
At this point, the Kuomintang people in the south could only abandon their illusions of peace and rise up to fight. Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, was originally from Wuning, Jiangxi. His family was well-off and he became a chivalrous man at a young age. He was later selected by the Jiangxi Military Academy and sent to Japan.
He studied abroad in the Military Academy and secretly joined the Tongmenghui in Japan. After returning to China, Li Liejun served in the new army in Jiangxi and Yunnan. After the Wuchang Uprising, he served as the governor of Jiangxi. He was only thirty-one years old at the time and could be said to be a young man.
Successful.
After Li Liejun was dismissed by Yuan Shikai, he did not immediately raise troops to challenge Yuan. Instead, he first went to power and left Nanchang for Shanghai on June 15. After arriving in Shanghai, Li Liejun met Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Chen Qimei and others.
After repeated discussions, it was believed that Yuan Shikai was difficult to influence, and the only way now was to raise troops to resist, which might still have a glimmer of hope.
On July 7, Li Liejun secretly summoned his old troops after returning to Jiangxi from Shanghai, and occupied the Hukou Fort on July 12. The next day, Li Liejun formed a group in Jiangxi to attack Yuan Jun and issued a petition against Yuan, declaring Jiangxi's independence.
As a result, the "Second Revolution" officially broke out. After Li Liejun declared independence, Huang Xing, Chen Qimei and others then split up and prepared to respond. On July 14, Huang Xing rushed to Nanjing to assist the First Division and the Second Division stationed in Nanjing.
On the basis of the Eighth Division, they organized a rebellion against Yuan's army and planned to coerce Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, to declare independence. That night, Huang Xing and others led soldiers into the governor's office. Cheng Dequan was panicked and had to pretend to agree. Then Huang Xing sent a call in the name of Cheng Dequan.
Jiangsu becomes independent.
The next day, Cheng Dequan expected that there would be a big war in Nanjing. He had no power and no troops, so why bother with this trouble, so he left quietly with his family. When he arrived in Shanghai, Cheng Dequan hurriedly sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, claiming that "Nanjing is independent"
"This was done by Huang Xing and others to clear their relationship. After Huang Xing and others learned that Cheng Dequan had fled, they ignored him and just moved their headquarters to the Air Control Office and continued to arrange their troops to meet the powerful enemy.
Even before the Wuchang Uprising, the Revolutionary Party had made a splash in Hunan. Therefore, Tan Yankai, the governor of Hunan, also declared independence under pressure from all parties and sent troops to Jiangxi to support Li Liejun. However, Tan Yankai's move was cunning.
In the name of "supporting Jiangxi," he transferred the troops controlled by the revolutionary party out of Changsha, the provincial capital. This not only satisfied the requirements of the revolutionary party, but also consolidated his own rule. Wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone and get the best of both worlds?
Like Li Liejun, Anhui Governor Bai Wenwei also left office after being dismissed, and then went to Nanjing for a short stay. After Li Liejun declared independence, he also returned to Anhui and declared independence on July 17, forming a corner with Nanjing and Jiangxi.
potential.
During the pre-Qing Dynasty, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Anhui were originally under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Liangjiang. During this revolution, the Beiyang Army was the first to bear the brunt, which was equivalent to completing the North-South war that had not yet started during the Wuchang Uprising.
At the rear of the revolution, Fujian Governor Sun Daoren was originally on the fence, but his division commander Xu Chongzhi first announced the uprising and then led his troops to coerce him. Sun Daoren had no choice but to join the camp against Yuan like Cheng Dequan. Zhejiang Governor Zhu
Rui was originally a member of the revolutionary team, but after the Wuchang Uprising, he formed a quarrel with the Tongmenghui people. This time, he ignored the righteousness of the revolution and not only did not participate in the fight against Yuan, but in the end he sent troops to attack Shanghai.
Guangdong has always been the base camp of the revolution. The dismissed Hu Hanmin and the new governor Chen Jiongming did not fall into Yuan Shikai's plan to alienate each other. They united to declare independence on July 18. Hu and Chen originally planned to send troops to aid Jiangxi.
However, because Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi, and Long Jiguang, the patrol commander stationed in northern Guangdong, were bribed by Yuan Shikai, both sides of Guangdong were threatened, and the plan to send troops had to be shelved.
In the southwest, Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi, has gone to Yuan Shikai's side. Cai E, the governor of Yunnan, is a disciple of Liang Qichao. He does not agree with the "Second Revolution" and therefore declared neutrality. Tang Jiyao, the governor of Guizhou, was originally a subordinate of Cai E. This
This time I also followed the old leader and declared neutrality.
As for Sichuan, there has been no peace since the end of the Wuchang Uprising! The only people who the revolutionary party has high hopes for independence are Xiong Kewu and Wang Hengyue.
It is quite deplorable that although the Southern Revolutionary Party used the slogan of "revolutionary revolution", they basically fought independently. Moreover, the internal quality of the army was uneven and the internal thinking was not unified. Officers defected to the enemy and mutinies in the army frequently occurred.
, the combat effectiveness is really questionable.
On Yuan Shikai's side, the Beiyang Army was neatly organized and had recently received a huge sum of money. It had ample money and strong troops and horses. It was a good time for fighting. What's more terrible is that at this time, Yuan Shikai was not only politically justified, but also supported by the great powers in diplomacy.
Moreover, the common people are determined and do not want war to break out.
The chaotic "second revolution" has begun!
In Sichuan, General Xiong Ke reorganized the 5th Division into 4 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 artillery regiment, and 1 engineering supply battalion. Liu Bocheng, Zheng Jingwu, and Liu Bocheng, outstanding graduates of the Shu Army General Bian Academy crash course,
Zhang Zhifang, Gao Jianxun and others were incorporated into the 5th Division to strengthen the strength of middle and lower-level officers.
Sichuan's "revolution" also broke out in an instant!
But at this time, Wang Hengyue was watching everything with cold eyes!@.